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...really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi to negotiate a settlement. The official also doubted that during this year's Tet offensive the village infrastructure...
...brought a new neatness to the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. On such matters as relations with the U.S.S.R., he says: "We used to spend half our time negotiating among ourselves, a quarter of the time with our allies and only a fourth with the Russians." The Kissinger apparatus is designed to short-circuit interdepartmental disputes well before they reach the President. "The role of the President is not to ratify the compromises of the bureaucracy," Kissinger insists. He is superb at squeezing clear-cut choices out of the departments to present to the President?and at spotting the weak...
...made to tighten up the law; last year President Nixon vetoed a bill that would have limited campaign spending on broadcasting. But growing public pressure, abetted by such groups as Common Cause and the National Committee for an Effective Congress, has forced a new look at the whole murky apparatus of campaign funding...
...social control and phone tapping image projection used against radical groups is the mission of the vast political intelligence apparatus of the FBI. Hoover began gathering political intelligence after an order in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt charging him to prepare for war by amassing information on groups likely to commit sabotage in the event of war. John Elliff termed this order the "Magna Carta of domestic intelligence." Hoover has operated on its authority ever since...
Cleaver said that the greatest problem facing these groups is the "lack of an effective communications apparatus that would enable them to better coordinate their activities...